The Coypus (Nutria) of Prague
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- I know this isn't Asia stuff but I sometimes move around too. On the rivers of Prague, there is a small colony of coypus or nutria as they are called in America. They are quite adorable. Here's a video with some facts.
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"Many of these will die in winter. Cute!"
That's the part that got me, as well. Then, what's more Czech than calling death "cute"? 😉
Here in Germany we call them nutria and we are so happy to see more of them. They are so cute.
it's like a micro capybara with webbed skin over its hind toes
I was born in the Argentinian Mesopotamia, a region where these boys are endemic and which is densely irrigated by numerous rivers, creeks and swampy areas. In Spanish we call them both coipos and nutrias. Coipo derives from a Guarany term (probably it was stressed in the last syllable as many other Guarany words) and "nutria" is Spanish for otter. I'd guess the first Spaniards who saw them swimming couldn't avoid noticing a similarity with actual otters and the name stuck. They are obviously not related to otters but more with capybaras or carpinchos (another name we give them in Argentina), as they are rodents too.
My mom used to work at a company which had to treat the used water due to the chemical processes performed there, and one way to prove the treatment was correct was setting a pond with treated water in the company facilities and let some animals live there. So they brought capybaras, nutrias and some birds... but no natural predators, lol. They reproduced quite fast and sometimes would wander inside company buildings. They had to be relocated and some others were killed. Yeah, not the ending you were expecting, sorry.
in my region ("Padania"-Italy) they kill and cook them, because local owners said that those animals damages water's channels and crops. aaah, sad but true...
In my country they are called nutria in Germany and the Czech Republic same
In our country it’s ‘beaver rat’.
Saw one 2 days ago in Prague it had the same colours as that brown one
They are called "nutrie" in Czech. They are invasive species here but locals sometimes feed them (including my grandfather who used to do so).
They are already pretty common in Czech rivers as there is nothing what will eat them.
It's called 'hódpatkány' in Hungarian which literally means beaver- rat... pretty fitting since it looks like a cross between a beaver and a rat.
Caramba! Coypú em Praga! Minicapivára chegando😀Temos essas bonitinhas aqui, perto de Naplavka 😀Eitáááá
Originally on the rivers in wider center of South America (BO, PY, BR, AR..) they were introduced to Europe for fur and meat... and escaped to "wild" nature. At the moment, they are on several spots around several rivers in Czech Republic. Little bit of South America here 🙂
So why do they die in winter?
One may guess that probably this species are from mild climates and were brought to Europe during the discoveries or later. Eventually, they die in winter because their bodies haven't adapted to the climate yet. Probably they are in the changing process. You can see how much they eat to keep warm.
This species, Myocastor coipus, live in colder climates in Southen America. In winter, there is frost and cold temperature around zero degress Celsius.
Very delicius big rats!!!
In England these monstrous rats are called Coypu.
invasive species!
You got the names reversed, in Europe it's Nutria, in English it's Coypu.
Is not a capibara is a coipo this animal live in chile and Argentina in rivers
Cute!
It's not Coypu in Europe. It's Nutria or Bisamratte in Germany, we're in Europe. Not Coypu. They're awesome, though, closely related to beavers.
Coypu is a cuter word. Nutria sounds like a sugar replacement.
@@Asianometry Agreed with that... Especially more so than Bisamratte (Ratte meaning rat)...
"Nutria" in Poland.
Those are big rats.
The same family but harmless and vegetarian.
@@RUclipsChillZone vegs? In the video it is said they eat ""anything really"
They look like the Brazilian capybara.
Interesting
donde anda weando el forestin
Its not a Coypus
So adorable
They are just big rats.
Funny how people's perceptions are...
They are a pest and a big problem. They tunnel into dikes en levy's with the serious risk of undermining them and causing floods. That they look cute doesn't make them a good addition to the environment. They are however good eating.
Don't feed the animals! Look like and are about the same size as NYC rats.
THEY ARE WAY BIGGER - the bigger ones are in size of small dogs.
my mom told me that iwhen she was young - they were served in hospitals as a diet meat and that it was really dilicious!